Safest Color For Mazda3?

[sajack]

White

[Mr. Win]

Awesome!

[goldwing2000]

Define "safe".

[FreeStyLinDrive]

Yeah, define "safe". I just read a highway safety report, not bias to any car, and they said the safest color is gray.

[DE31]

safest for any car is spicy orange (silly)





but seriously probably grey, silver, or white since they blend in with all the other cars in the street.

[Mikey444]

wining blue :D

[vindication]

opaque

[Pretzellogic]

clear.

[vindication]

opaque=clear

oooohhhhh, you are teh luz
ooooo, burn

[Pretzellogic]

opaque=clear

oooohhhhh, you are teh luz
ooooo, burn
You sure about that?

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Impenetrable by light; neither transparent nor translucent.
Not reflecting light; having no luster: an opaque finish.

Care to try again :D

[vindication]

well, Color me pwn3d. lol
(hand)

since I was little I recalled someone(more than one actually) referring to opaque as clear.

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[jersey_emt]

safest for any car is spicy orange (silly)





but seriously probably grey, silver, or white since they blend in with all the other cars in the street.

Yup, you're basically a moving traffic phone. If someone hits you, they'd be hard pressed to say they didn't see you coming...

[mobomelter]

yeah when it comes to safe bright colors win.

[sajack]

It has been proven ( I have the article somewhere) that white is the safest color because of its perceptability.
It is safer than red, orange, or yellow. Mercedes did a study on this several years back.
The least (hardest to see) safe is black. Grays and silvers are not much better than black. Did you ever wonder why the military paints its fighter jets and battleships gray?

[Emode]

Did you ever wonder why the military paints its fighter jets and battleships gray?


no

[Brian MP5T]

White!

http://www.msprotege.com/members/Brian%20MP5T/M3%203.jpg

[goldwing2000]

Define "safe".

I say again: Define "safe."

Safe from accidents?
Safe from getting tickets?
Safe from getting stolen?

Your question is open to too much interpretation.

[Chilly]

I don't know that there is any "safe" color in any form. Yeah, some colors stand out more which helps for visibility but if a cop tags you speeding I don't think it matters what color you have. I saw a titanium 3 sedan pulled over today, but they didn't mark me specifically b/c I have a strato blue or anything like that.

[sajack]

I say again: Define "safe."

Safe from accidents?
Safe from getting tickets?
Safe from getting stolen?

Your question is open to too much interpretation.

Accidents, white is more easily seen by other motorists.

[goldwing2000]

Accidents, white is more easily seen by other motorists.

Not in the winter. (wiggle)

[FreeStyLinDrive]

Does anyone know why the color red at a traffic signal means to stop instead of green meaning to stop or even yellow?

For you people who do not know, a human eye can define and react to that shade on the color spectrum FASTER compared to other colors. So with that in mind, and I have research to back me up on this, motorist can see and react to "red" cars faster then other colored CARS.

Anyone ever heard that people with red cars get more tickets? Hmmmm… police officers, like other motorists on the road, can see and react to a red car.

Well that’s science, but the U.S. department of highway safety says: “Light gray cars, are the safest cars on the ROAD”, Quoted from the U.S. Department of Highway safety’s website.

Unlike others on this website, I have factorial evidence. Some people need to research before running the mouth or typing NON SENSE! Even though my car is gray, above information is not bios. Its just the facts PEOPLE.

[Brian MP5T]

Not in the winter. (wiggle)


Ummm, DTRL will fix that one...

[Loose]

Not in the winter. (wiggle)
Agree!

[sajack]

I don`t know what gubmint report you are reading, but I stand by the M-B report that says white is most discernable. There are lots of white emergency vehicles out there.
Nobody seems to see my gray Miata.

Mercedes-Benz measured paint colors according to their perceptibility values.
The rating of relative conspicuousness was done to aid buyers concerned with safety to opt for the paint finish likely to make their cars most strongly recognizable under various light conditions.
In order of most perceptible to least, they were:
white, beige, yellow, signal red, grey, moss green, med. blue, brown, deep blue, black, forest green, midnight blue.

[goldwing2000]

Ummm, DTRL will fix that one...

Only if you're looking at the front of the car. DRLs won't help with side or rear visibility.

[Shiney_McShine]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/planetscott/fall3.jpg

[FreeStyLinDrive]

(hitit)

[Brian MP5T]

Only if you're looking at the front of the car. DRLs won't help with side or rear visibility.

Touche...

(jerkit)





:)

[chuyler1]

Not in the winter. (wiggle)

...but white is also the hardest to keep clean in the winter. For the first 10 minutes out in the snow your car will be invisible. After that white => brown from all the sand they put on the road.

[vindication]

white is easiest to look clean, then grey....and laslty my black mica(sad2)

[Brian MP5T]

I don't know...

White looks super HAWT when Cleaned and Waxed and still looks Ok with a bit of dirt. Black looks bad when even a bit dirty...

[goldwing2000]

...but white is also the hardest to keep clean in the winter. For the first 10 minutes out in the snow your car will be invisible. After that white => brown from all the sand they put on the road.

They use sand where you are? Lucky. SE Michigan uses salt. (boom07)

[Shiney_McShine]

Another

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/planetscott/fall31.jpg

[M_3]

white is cool i got black but i have to be cleaning it all the time